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Re: JOYCE 2.2.7 released

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On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 12:37:43 AM UTC+1, John Elliott wrote:
> If you're using JOYCE (or ANNE) to run random files you've downloaded from 
> the Internet, it would be a good idea to upgrade to version 2.2.7.
> 
> <http://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/>
> 
>   The reason is that earlier versions of JOYCE / ANNE allow specially 
> written CP/M programs to read / write arbitrary files on the user's computer,
> without asking. I'm not aware of any such programs, but to rule out the 
> possibility, it would be safer to use version 2.2.7.
> 
>   The latest version, by default, prompts the user for permission whenever 
> a CP/M program (for example, the supplied IMPORT / EXPORT utilities) wants 
> to access an external file. It's also possible to disable the function
> altogether.
> 
>   My thanks to Alan Cox for drawing this to my attention.
> 
> -- 
> John Elliott
> 
> Thinks: This is what a nice clean life leads to. Hmm, why did I ever lead one?
> 		-- Bluebottle, in the Goon Show

This is very impressive.
(I hadn't seen the Locoscript screen for 26 years!)
Joyce works well on Ubuntu 14.04.
I made some notes here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqH2QT4dbn6bAL30ATUD8syprnMU4gYAg7Y1txU4uUQ/pub
Thanks!
John

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